Here are 4 answers to that question:

1. LAG TIME. Medicine generally lags 50 years behind when it comes to implementing new and proven discoveries.

2. IGNORANCE. Western doctors simply are not educated about amino acids or, for that matter, any kind of nutrition. Medical schools in the late 1970's provided a 2-hour lecture on nutrition . . . 2 hours out of 4 YEARS of training.

3. RELUCTANCE TO CHANGE. Doctors have passed on their ideas about health, illness, and healing from one generation to another. Like most people, doctors prefer stability to change. Most doctors don't want to be pioneers. Pioneering has a lot of drawbacks.

4. MANAGING MANAGED CARE. Doctors are being demoralized by managed care. They are worn out, stressed-out, earning less, fighting harder to survive in what is now simply the corporate world of Medicine. They have lost the ability to really practice Medicine, to make treatment decisions on their own, and not by enforcement by an arbitrary, uneducated intermediary, namely managed care. The complete demise of managed care will bring a new era in Medicine, in which doctors and patients can restore their faith in the practice of healing.

- Time, patience, education, lots of data, media coverage, and YOU. Yes, if you, the healthcare consumer, get educated and get cured of chronic health problems, then you can spread the word and educate your doctors.